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NAME
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Jennifer Jackson
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AGENCY
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Donald Maass Literary Agency
121 West 27th Street, Suite 801
New York,
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10001
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AAR MEMBER
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Yes
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AGENCY PHONE
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(212) 727-8383
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AGENCY FAX
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(212) 727-3271
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EMAIL
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queries to query.jjackson@maassagency.com
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AGENCY WEB SITE
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http://www.maassagency.com
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FICTION GENRES
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Science Fiction
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Crime
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Mystery
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Christian
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Commercial Fiction
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Fantasy
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Women's Fiction
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Romance
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Historical Fiction
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Young Adult
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Thrillers/Suspense
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Multi-Cultural
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Military/Espionage
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NONFICTION GENRES
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CURRENT STATUS
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This agent accepts queries
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MORE INFORMATION
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SPECIAL INTERESTS
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First love is science fiction and fantasy; always interested in a variety of new projects.
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Actively seeking to expand her young adult fiction list in all genres.
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Pioneered the expansion of the agency into romance and women's fiction.
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Also developing a select list of suspense novels and thrillers.
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DOES NOT REPRESENT
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Does not represent nonfiction, memoirs, poetry, picture books, screenplays.
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SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
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MANUSCRIPT FONT FACE PREFERENCE
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MANUSCRIPT FONT SIZE PREFERENCE
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FACTS/TIDBITS
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EDUCATION
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NEW DEALS
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Fiction
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Fantasy
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Young Adult
Martha Wells' EMILIE AND THE HOLLOW WORLD, a story of Victorian-esque adventure in a fantasy world, to be published by Strange Chemistry / Angry Robot.
Fiction
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Fantasy
Hugo Award winner Elizabeth Bear's ONE-EYED JACK, a new stand-alone novel in the Promethean cycle, to be published by Prime Books.
Fiction
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Fantasy
Chris F. Holm's THE BIG REAP, the 3rd Collector novel, in which Sam Thornton continues to get himself into epic trouble in this noir-flavored fantasy thriller, to be published by Angry Robot Books.
Fiction
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Science Fiction
Five new Liaden® novels from the dynamic writing duo of Sharon Lee and Steve Miller, in which many threads of previous novels will be resolved, to be published by Baen Books.
Fiction
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Science Fiction
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Fantasy
World Fantasy Award winning author Ekaterina Sedia's MOSCOW BUT DREAMING, a collection of short stories, to Prime Books.
Fiction
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Fantasy
New York Time bestselling author Craig Shaw Gardner's contemporary fantasy TEMPORARY MAGIC, in which Lenny Hodge takes a job at the temporary employment agency that secretly controls the world, to be published by Ace Books (Penguin USA).
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PAST/PRESENT CLIENTS
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Cold Days (Dresden Files 14)
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Jim Butcher
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Fantasy
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Penguin / Roc (November 2012) |
The eagerly awaited new novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling Dresden Files series.
After being murdered by a mystery assailant, navigating his way through the realm between life and death, and being brought back to the mortal world, Harry realizes that maybe death wasn’t all that bad. Because he is no longer Harry Dresden, Chicago’s only professional wizard. He is now Harry Dresden, Winter Knight to Mab, the Queen of Air and Darkness. After Harry had no choice but to swear his fealty, Mab wasn’t about to let something as petty as death steal away the prize she had sought for so long. And now, her word is his command, no matter what she wants him to do, no matter where she wants him to go, and no matter who she wants him to kill.
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Written in Red (a novel of the Others)
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Anne Bishop
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Fantasy
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Penguin / Roc (March 2013) |
Launching a thrilling new fantasy series in a world inhabited by the Others, unearthly entities—vampires and shape-shifters among them—who rule the Earth and whose prey are humans.
As a cassandra sangue, or blood prophet, Meg Corbyn can see the future when her skin is cut—a gift that feels more like a curse. Meg’s Controller keeps her enslaved so he can have full access to her visions. But when she escapes, the only safe place Meg can hide is at the Lakeside Courtyard—a business district operated by the Others.
Shape-shifter Simon Wolfgard is reluctant to hire the stranger who inquires about the Human Liaison job. When he learns the truth about Meg and that she’s wanted by the government, he’ll have to decide if she’s worth the fight between humans and the Others that will surely follow.
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The Unseen Series
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Richie Tankersley Cusick
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Young Adult
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Penguin (August 2012) |
Out walking alone one rainy night, Lucy becomes convinced that someone--or something--is following her. Spooked, she ducks into a cemetery to try and lose her stalker. Panicking in the darkness, she slips and stumbles into an open grave only to discover she is not alone in there. . . . Lucy manages to escape, but she doesn’t get away unscathed. She begins having terrifying visions and dream sand she still can’t shake the feeling of an unseen presence, always watching, waiting. . . . Who was the girl in the grave? And what has she done to Lucy?
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Inexplicables (a novel of the Clockwork Century)
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Cherie Priest
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Science Fiction
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Tor Books (November 2012) |
Rector “Wreck ‘em” Sherman was orphaned as a toddler in the Blight of 1863, but that was years ago. Wreck has grown up, and on his eighteenth birthday, he’ll be cast out out of the orphanage. And Wreck’s problems aren’t merely about finding a home. He’s been quietly breaking the cardinal rule of any good drug dealer and dipping into his own supply of the sap he sells. He’s also pretty sure he’s being haunted by the ghost of a kid he used to know—Zeke Wilkes, who almost certainly died six months ago. Zeke would have every reason to pester Wreck, since Wreck got him inside the walled city of Seattle in the first place, and that was probably what killed him.Maybe it’s only a guilty conscience, but Wreck can’t take it anymore, so he sneaks over the wall.
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Shattered Pillars (The Eternal Sky 2)
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Elizabeth Bear
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Fantasy
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Tor Books (March 2013) |
Sequel to RANGE OF GHOSTS. Set in a world drawn from our own great Asian Steppes, this saga of magic, politics and war sets Re-Temur, the exiled heir to the great Khagan and his friend Sarmarkar, a Wizard of Tsarepheth, against dark forces determined to conquer all the great Empires along the Celedon Road.
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The Siren Depths (Book 3 of the Raksura)
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Martha Wells
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Fantasy
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Night Shade Books (December 2012) |
All his life, Moon roamed the Three Worlds, a solitary wanderer forced to hide his true nature — until he was reunited with his own kind, the Raksura, and found a new life as consort to Jade, sister queen of the Indigo Cloud court. But now a rival court has laid claim to him, and Jade may or may not be willing to fight for him. Beset by doubts, Moon must travel in the company of strangers to a distant realm where he will finally face the forgotten secrets of his past, even as an old enemy returns with a vengeance. The Fell, a vicious race of shape-shifting predators, menaces groundlings and Raksura alike. Determined to crossbreed with the Raksura for arcane purposes, they are driven by an ancient voice that cries out from . . . .The siren depths.
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The Throne of the Crescent Moon
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Saladin Ahmed
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Fantasy
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DAW Books (February 2012) |
The Crescent Moon Kingdoms, home to djenn and ghuls, holy warriors and heretics, are at the boiling point of a power struggle between the iron-fisted Khalif and the mysterious master thief known as the Falcon Prince. In the midst of this brewing rebellion a series of brutal supernatural murders strikes at the heart of the Kingdoms. It is up to a handful of heroes to learn the truth behind these killings: Doctor Adoulla Makhslood, “the last real ghul hunter in the great city of Dhamsawaat,”; Raseed bas Raseed, Adoulla’s young assistant, a hidebound holy warrior; and Zamia Badawi, Protector of the Band, gifted with the near-mythical power of the lion-shape. When they learn that the murders and the Falcon Prince’s brewing revolution are connected, the companions must race against time — and struggle against their own misgivings — to save the life of a vicious despot. In so doing they discover a plot for the Throne of the Crescent Moon that threatens to turn Dhamsawaat, and the world itself, into a blood-soaked ruin.
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Glamour in Glass
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Mary Robinette Kowal
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Fantasy
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Tor Books (April 2012) |
Mary Robinette Kowal stunned readers with her charming first novel Shades of Milk and Honey, a loving tribute to the works of Jane Austen in a world where magic is an everyday occurrence. This magic comes in the form of glamour, which allows talented users to form practically any illusion they can imagine. Shades debuted to great acclaim and left readers eagerly awaiting its sequel. Glamour in Glass follows the lives of beloved main characters Jane and Vincent, with a much deeper vein of drama and intrigue.
In the tumultuous months after Napoleon abdicates his throne, Jane and Vincent go to Belgium for their honeymoon. While there, the deposed emperor escapes his exile in Elba, throwing the continent into turmoil. With no easy way back to England, Jane and Vincent’s concerns turn from enjoying their honeymoon…to escaping it. Left with no outward salvation, Jane must persevere over her trying personal circumstances and use her glamour to rescue her husband from prison…and hopefully prevent her newly built marriage from getting stranded on the shoals of another country's war.
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Wilful Impropriety
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Ekaterina Sedia, editor
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Fantasy
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Young Adult
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Running Press Books (September 2012) |
The Season has finally arrived, filled with the magnificent balls, scandalous gossip, and clandestine romances that every lord and lady in good society has come to expect. But far within the walls of lavish estates and in the dark corners of the city lies a world that the aristocracy dares not touch, with rules and risks that glamour cannot overpower. Yet true love has no boundaries, and heiresses and street thieves alike must use their savvy and strength to create new beginnings and happily-ever-afters. Sometimes luck is enough, but every once in a while, a touch of magic may be needed. Deliciously alluring, these thirteen historical romances from a talented array of YA authors will make even the most cynical heart swoon.
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Antiphon (Chronicles of Isaak 3)
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Ken Scholes
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Fantasy
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Tor Books (September 2010) |
Nothing is as it seems to be. The ancient past is not dead. The hand of the Wizard Kings still reaches out to challenge the Androfrancine Order, to control the magick and technology that they sought to understand and claim for their own. Nebios, the boy who watched the destruction of the city of Windwir, now runs the vast deserts of the world, far from his beloved Marsh Queen. He is being hunted by strange women warriors, while his dreams are invaded by warnings from his dead father. Jin Li Tam, queen of the Ninefold Forest, guards her son as best she can against both murderous threats, and the usurper queen and her evangelists. They bring a message: Jakob is the child of promise of their Gospel, and the Crimson Empress is on her way. And in hidden places, the remnants of the Androfrancine order formulate their response to the song pouring out of a silver crescent that was found in the wastes.
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Kalimpura (Green Book 3)
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Jay Lake
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Fantasy
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Tor Books (January 2013) |
This sequel to Green and Endurance takes Green back to the city of Kalimpura and the service of the Lily Goddess. Green is hounded by the gods of Copper Downs and the gods of Kalimpura, who have laid claim to her and her children. She never wanted to be a conduit for the supernatural, but when she killed the Immortal Duke and created the Ox god with the power she released, she came to their notice.Now she has sworn to retrieve the two girls taken hostage by the Bittern Court, one of Kalimpura’s rival guilds. But the Temple of the Lily Goddess is playing politics with her life.
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Strangeness and Charm (Book 3 of the Courts of the Feyre)
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Mike Shevdon
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Fantasy
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Angry Robot (May 2012) |
In this sequel to Sixty-One Nails and The Road to Bedlam, Alex has been saved from the fate that awaited her in Bedlam, but in freeing her, Niall has released others of their kind into the population - half-breed fey who have been mistreated, abused and tortured by the institution that was supposed to help them. Now, as Warder, he must find them and persuade them to swap their new-found liberty for security in the courts - but is the price of sanctuary to swap one cage for another?
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Dragonship (a novel of the Liaden® Universe)
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Sharon Lee and Steve Miller
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Science Fiction
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Baen Books (September 2012) |
First Class courier pilot Theo Waitley was already known as a nexus of violence – and then she inherited the precarious captaincy of a mysterious self-aware ship designed to serve a long dead trader. Now she has a trade route to run for Clan Korval while she convinces the near mythic ghost ship Bechimo – and herself – that she wants to commit herself as the human side to their immensely powerful symbiosis. While her former lover battles a nano-virus that's eating him alive, she's challenged to rescue hundreds of stranded pilots and crewmen from an explosive situation in near orbit around a suddenly hostile planet. Lovers, enemies, an ex-roomie, and a jealous spaceship are all in peril as Theo wields power that no one in the universe is sure of, especially her.
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Kris Longknife: Furious
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Mike Shepherd
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Science Fiction
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Penguin / Ace (October 2012) |
Having used unorthodox methods to save a world—and every sentient being on it—Lieutenant Commander Kris Longknife is wanted across the galaxy for crimes against humanity. For her own safety, she’s been assigned to a backwater planet where her Fast Patrol Squadron 127 enforces immigration control and smuggler interdiction. But Kris is a Longknife, and nothing can stop her from getting back to the center of things—not when all hell is breaking loose. Now she’s on the run, hunted by both military and civilian authorities—and since the civilian authorities happen to be her immediate family, Kris soon finds herself homeless, broke, and on trial for her life on an alien world…
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LINKS
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This is Jennifer Jackson's personal website
http://www.jenniferjackson.org
Twitter
https://twitter.com/arcaedia
This is Jennifer Jackson's blog
http://arcaedia.wordpress.com/
This is the agency webpage on PublishersMarketplace
http://www.publishersmarketplace.com/members/DonaldMaass/
Interview with Jennifer Jackson at Odyssey Workshop
http://odysseyworkshop.livejournal.com/51376.html
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